The Toilet Poster - Revision history

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Duncan: /* In popular culture */

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In popular culture

Jason.Kreitzer at 02:36, 8 August 2021

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Spider of Destiny at 17:33, 18 October 2020

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Spider of Destiny: /* In popular culture */

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In popular culture

Spider of Destiny at 12:02, 1 December 2010

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Spider of Destiny at 21:52, 26 November 2010

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Propellerkuh at 08:39, 28 February 2010

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	[[Category:Biographical Trivia\|Toilet Poster]]		[[Category:Biographical Trivia\|Toilet Poster]]
	[[Category:Side Projects\|Toilet Poster]]		[[Category:Side Projects\|Toilet Poster]]
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 * The poster can be seen in the French movie [[Wikipedia:Le Péril jeune|Le Péril jeune]] (1994). In another scene Zappa's ''[[Over-Nite Sensation]]'' is shown to pupils in a classroom. The song [[Dirty Love]] is used on the soundtrack.
-* It also visible in "Halloween 2" (2009) by [[Rob Zombie]], where the store owner is named [[Uncle Meat]].
+* It also visible in "Halloween 2" (2009) by [[Wikipedia:Rob Zombie|Rob Zombie]], where the store owner is named [[Uncle Meat]].
 ==See also:==

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 ==In popular culture==
-* The poster can be seen in the French movie ''[[Le Péril Jeune]]'' (1994).
+* The poster can be seen in the French movie [[Wikipedia:Le Péril jeune|Le Péril jeune]] (1994). In another scene Zappa's ''[[Over-Nite Sensation]]'' is shown to pupils in a classroom. The song [[Dirty Love]] is used on the soundtrack.
-* It also visible in "Halloween 2" (2009) by [[Rob Zombie]], where the store owner is named [[Uncle Meat]], as an extra Zappa hint.
+* It also visible in "Halloween 2" (2009) by [[Rob Zombie]], where the store owner is named [[Uncle Meat]].
 ==See also:==

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 *[[The Infamous Shit-Eating-On-Stage Contest]]
-[[Category:Biographical Trivia]]
+[[Category:Biographical Trivia|Toilet Poster]]
-[[Category:Side Projects]]
+[[Category:Side Projects|Toilet Poster]]

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 ''"I'm probably more famous for sitting on the toilet than for anything else that I do."'' (FZ, Interview on Nationwide, July 1, 1983)
-An enduring image of [[Frank Zappa]] is the "Toilet Poster" or "Phi Zappa Krappa"-poster, depicting him sitting on a toilet.  The picture was taken by [[Robert Davidson]] in 1967 for an article in the International Times (Issue 18, August 31st - September 13th). There are three versions extant, all taken during the one session. The  original version (1) has [[wikipedia:Jugendstil|Jugendstil]] style graphic ornaments around the picture.  The "Krappa" version (2) has colored ornament and the name "ZAPPA" as ornament or has the text "PHI ZAPPA KRAPPA" across the top of the poster but with no ornamentation.<br>
+An enduring image of [[Biography|Frank Zappa]] is the "Toilet Poster" or "Phi Zappa Krappa"-poster, depicting him sitting on a toilet.  The picture was taken by [[Robert Davidson]] in 1967 for an article in the International Times (Issue 18, August 31st - September 13th). There are three versions extant, all taken during the one session. The  original version (1) has [[wikipedia:Jugendstil|Jugendstil]] style graphic ornaments around the picture.  The "Krappa" version (2) has colored ornament and the name "ZAPPA" as ornament or has the text "PHI ZAPPA KRAPPA" across the top of the poster but with no ornamentation.<br>
 Zappa resented that he had no control, or royalty payments, from the poster although he authorised one version:

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 [[Image:Toiletposter1.jpg|frame|The Toilet Poster, (1)]]
 [[Image:Toiletposter2.jpg|frame|Phi Zappa Krappa, (2)]]
 An enduring image of [[Frank Zappa]] is the "Toilet Poster" or "Phi Zappa Krappa"-poster, depicting him sitting on a toilet.  The picture was taken by Robert Davidson in 1967 for an article in the International Times (Issue 18, August 31st - September 13th). There are three versions extant, all taken during the one session. The  original version (1) has [[wikipedia:Jugendstil|Jugendstil]] style graphic ornaments around the picture.  The "Krappa" version (2) has colored ornament and the name "ZAPPA" as ornament or has the text "PHI ZAPPA KRAPPA" across the top of the poster but with no ornamentation.<br>

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 In 2006 London's [[wikipedia:Victoria and Albert Museum|Victoria and Albert Museum]] included the original version in an exhibition of  Sixties Graphics which included many items from the collection of [[Barry Miles]].
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 [[Category:Biographical Trivia]]

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−	<blockquote>"It was designed to be a picture to go with an article in the [[wikipedia:International Times\|International Times]], you know about that magazine from England? And it was supposed to be used as publicity for our first concert in 1967. And the photographer who took it made a poster and sold it for his own profit and then that poster was bootlegged all over Europe and eventually went into the United States and millions of 'em were sold. But I couldn't stop them from doing that. No! Because in London, er, the, photographic copyright laws are different from the United States. Somebody takes a picture in the US, they can't make commercial use out of it without your permission but in England, if somebody takes your picture, the photographer owns it and can do whatever he wants with it."</blockquote>	+	<blockquote>"It was designed to be a picture to go with an article in the [[wikipedia:International Times\|International Times]], you know about that magazine from England? And it was supposed to be used as publicity for our first concert in 1967. And the photographer who took it made a poster and sold it for his own profit and then that poster was bootlegged all over Europe and eventually went into the United States and millions of 'em were sold. But I couldn't stop them from doing that. No! Because in London, er, the … photographic copyright laws are different from the United States. Somebody takes a picture in the US, they can't make commercial use out of it without your permission but in England, if somebody takes your picture, the photographer owns it and can do whatever he wants with it."</blockquote>
	<div align=right>FZ in an FM4-Interview</div align=right>		<div align=right>FZ in an FM4-Interview</div align=right>